English Explanatory Dictionary

display

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A show or spectacle.
A piece of work to be presented visually.
A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

verb

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
To discover; to descry.
To spread out, to unfurl.

Pronunciation

/dɪsˈpleɪ/ En-us-display.ogg /ˈɖɪsˌple/

Word forms

display displays displaying displayed

Etymology

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

Synonyms

cardboard display splay

Related words

characters CRT cursor digits graphics monitor screen VDU

Derived words

affect display air display codisplay courtship display displayability displayable display cabinet display case displayer display list display tearing display window ferroelectric liquid-crystal display field emission display fireworks display heads-up display head-up display holodisplay liquid crystal display microdisplay misdisplay nondisplayed on display organic electroluminescent display pay and display pay-and-display plasma display predisplay public display of affection redisplay refreshable display semi-display shoulder display starburst display surface-conduction electron-emitter display undisplay undisplayed vacuum fluorescent display visual display unit volumetric display

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